Dec 20, 2007Quickie Link: Homo Witch Hunt in Morocco
By vanrozenheim
(Morocco) - Amid media hysteria and large and riotous anti-Gay demonstrations in Morocco, six men whom prosecutors claimed participated in a "Gay marriage" have been convicted of violating that country's law against homosexual conduct and sent to prison. The drama, which attracted huge national media coverage- in large measure of an hysterically anti-Gay character - took place last month in Ksar El Kébir, a largely impoverished city of more than 100,000 halfway between Tangier and the nation's capital of Rabat, and which is dominated politically by the principal Islamist party, the Party of Justice and Development, popular among Morocco's economically deprived majority.
